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G. H. DOWNES.

Pencil Case.

No. 236,005. Patented Dec. 28,1880.

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CHARLES H. DOWNES, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

PENCIL-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,005, dated December 28, 1880.

Application filed April 2G, 1880.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. DowNEs, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State ot New Jersey, have invented certain vnew and useful Improvements in Pencil- Cases; and I do hereby declare that the t'ollowing is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to pencil-cases ot' the extensible or telescopic kind, which can be contracted and made very short and compact, and when the sections are fully extended a very long handle is obtained, which can be conveniently manipulated while writing.

My invention consists in the combination, with a pencil carrier or holder, of tubular slotted and shouldered sections and a lockingpin, which latter serves also as a guide-pin, as will be hereinafter explained. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated by the annexed drawings.

Figure l is a view, partly in section, ot' the tubular sections of a pencil-case fully contracted. Fig. L shows the two slotted tubular sections extended and adjusted in a position for protruding the pencil. Fig. 3 shows the pencil protruded and the tubular sections partly extended and locked. Fig. et shows the pencil protruded and locked, and the two slotted tubular sections fully extended, the largest open-slotted tubular section being detached from the locking-pin. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are details showing the four sections ot' which the pencil-case is composed.

A designates a tube having two straight slots, t and d, arranged opposite, or nearly so, each other, and which terminate near its ends. YrIhe tube A terminates at one end in a short transverse slot, b, from which springs a flaring passage, c, cutting through the lower end ol the tube A. The short transverse slot b, above referred to, leaves two shoulders, ij, which are used as will be hereinafter explained.

B designates a tube which is fitted to slide (Model.)

freely inside of the tube A, and which is slightly longer than this tube; and g designates a longitudinal slot in tube B, the ends of which slot terminate in short transverse locking-slots h 7i', springing from it in opposite directions. Inside of the tube Bis a sliding holder, D, to which a pencil-nib, C,is represented as applied.

Near the upper end of the holder D a pin, c, is secured to it, which is designed to slide in the slots g h h in tubular section B, and also to enter the slots a b c in the tubular section A. In the upper end of this tubular section B a short tube, E, (see Fig. 7,) is inserted, so that it has a movement about its axis limited by a stud, f, which protrudes through a transverse slot, t', (see Fig. 6,) in and near 'the upper end of section B. Thisstud f also extends into thelongitudinal slot d in tubular section A, and serves as a guide and steadypin for this section, and also limits its longitudinal and lateral movements on the tube B. Pin j' also prevents detachment of said tubes A and B while extending them.

The tube A (see Fig. l) is covered by an ornamented case, k, suitably secured toit, and this tube is also partly inclosed by another ornamental case, G, which is permanently secured at its lower end to the tube B.

The operation ot the pencil-case is as follows: The sections being contracted, as shown by Fig. l, to extend them, as shown by Fig. 3, the section B is drawn out of A to the position shown by Fig. 2, and pin c of pencilholder D brought into the transverse slot b of section A. The pencil-holder D is then protruded by bringing shoulder t' against pin e, and pressing the two sections A B together. Then, by a slight turn of section A or B, the pin e is moved into slot It', which locks the holder D in the protrnded position. Pin c is then left in slot h', and slot c caused to register with it, when the tubes A B may be fully extended, as shown by Fig. 4..

When the parts are contracted, as shown by Fig. 1, the pencil-holder D may be locked inside ofthe section B by adjusting pin c into the short slot h at the upper end of slot g.

The shouldei1 j of tube A is used for reor studs c f, arranged to operate substantraetng the pencil-holder D by engaging with tially in the manner and for the purpose here- 1o pin e. in set forth.

VVlia-t I claim is- 5 The slide or holder D, having attached to CHARLES H DOWNES' it a peil or pencil, or other device, in eombi- Witnesses: nation with the tube A, slotted at a b c, and GILBERT S. CLARK, with the angularly-slotted tube B and pins CHAS. L. DOWNES. 

